With growing evidence that many of the nation’s cyber charter schools are plagued by serious academic and management problems, an Education Week team conducted a months-long investigation into this niche sector of K-12 schooling.

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The 2016 winners of the Education Writers Association’s National Awards for Education Reporting were announced May 1, 2017.

The purpose of the awards is to advance education journalism by recognizing the field’s very best efforts. The awards’ goals are to:

Encourage and inspire more and better education journalism;

Underscore the importance of excellent coverage and storytelling as a cornerstone of democracy and education.

Winners were recognized at an award ceremony held during EWA’s National Seminar and received cash prizes. Category winners each received $1,000. Each recipient of the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting received $10,000; the Ronald Moskowitz Prize for Outstanding Beat Reporting received $2,500; and the Edwin Gould Foundation’s Eddie Prize received a $7,500 prize.

For links to prize-winning articles, and information about the winners, scroll down.